Alex Peterson

@SenTinaSmith It's not in the boundary waters!

The irony of posting about Earth Day just a week after we lost a vote to save the Boundary Waters isn’t lost on me. It’s a tough loss that we’re still processing. But today, of all days, should remind us why these special places are worth fighting for.   The Boundary Waters have some of the cleanest water that you will find anywhere in this country. Endless lakes and streams filled with bass and pike and trout. Completely untouched nature and only accessible via canoe. Allowing this copper-sulfide mine in the headwaters of the BWCA will threaten all of that, but the fight isn’t over. It looks different, yes, but the mission is still fundamentally the same: These waters are the birthright of every single one of us, and it’s our job to protect them from the corporate greed of Antofagasta. Not this mine. Not this place.   This coalition of Tribal Nations, outdoorsmen, conservationists, public lands enthusiasts and just your average Minnesotans who have been lucky enough to visit this place will still fight against this mine. And anyone who is feeling defeated should look at the comments on Pete Stauber’s posts last week to get a sense of just how mad we are and how hard we are going to continue fighting. Because the Boundary Waters have such special meaning. It’s a sacred place, and we will never stop defending it. 🛶🫎🇺🇸

@afbranco Describes virtually every Democrat.

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@r0ck3t23 Trump should have the IRS audit every single member of Congress. Might nail a good portion of them for tax evasion.

Elon Musk just described the most sophisticated theft operation in American history. Not a heist. A system. Your tax dollars leave Washington. They enter a non-governmental organization. The government. With different letterhead. Musk: “Obviously if it’s a government-funded non-governmental organization, it’s just the government.” They cross a border. American law stops following them. They pass through three more entities in three more countries. They come home. Different pocket. Clean hands. Perfect crime. Musk: “The government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer governed by the laws of the United States.” Now run the math. Congressional salary. $200,000. Average net worth of a longtime member of Congress. North of $20 million. Musk: “There are a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. I just can’t connect the dots of how they got $20 million earning $200,000 a year. Nobody can explain that.” Nobody is supposed to. This machine ran untouched for decades for one reason. Human limitation. A forensic team cannot trace ten thousand wire transfers across fifty global jurisdictions at once. The corruption does not hide in darkness. It hides in volume. They built a labyrinth so deliberately complex that the sheer weight of it collapses every investigation before it starts. Paper buries paper. Bureaucracy absorbs inquiry. The entire architecture was engineered to exhaust you. Then artificial intelligence arrived. AI does not get tired. It cannot be bought. It does not lose the thread at wire transfer 4,000. You give it the entire global ledger. It maps every node, every transfer, every shell entity, every offshore NGO across every jurisdiction. Not in weeks. In hours. It finds the signal inside the noise. It flags the pattern. It traces a dollar from a D.C. appropriation to a Cayman shell to a congressional portfolio in the time it takes a human auditor to find his parking spot. The labyrinth was built to defeat human eyes. It is defenseless against a machine that reads the entire maze at once. This is why the establishment is not just annoyed by DOGE. They are terrified. Musk: “We’re going to try to figure it out and stop it.” He did not arrive in Washington to trim budgets. He arrived with supercomputing, AI audit systems, and a mandate to map the full financial architecture of the federal government. For the first time in history, the complexity that protected the corruption is the very thing that will expose it. Every shell entity is a signature. Every routing pattern is a fingerprint. Every congressman who walked in earning $200,000 and walked out worth $20 million is now a variable in an equation that will be solved. The swamp was never impenetrable. It was just too big for human hands. It was never built for this.

@peggyflanagan Well, I suppose it will stop the Canadians from coming here for medical treatment, so there's that. You know, the Canadians who have "universal health care insurance".

It’s time for Medicare for All.

@mirandadevine Nah, they still have massive vote fraud.

Wow! If they've lost him the Democrats are cooked.

@amyklobuchar Yes, but America voted for someone who said he would expel illegal immigrants. Do you think the majorities' will should be ignored?

Budgets are values, and Congressional Republicans want to give another blank check to ICE. That is money that could fund 200,000 local law enforcement officers for three years or extend the health care premium tax credits for two years.

@mitchpberg I wonder if her accountant is the same guy as the one who sprayed her with vinegar? You know, the story the media blockaded.

Rep. Omar says her net worth fell from ~$30M to under $100K because her accountant didn't add losses and liabilities to the valuations of their "winery" and husband's business. OK. That's the exact reason billionaires "pay no taxes". How long til Omar yaps about THAT again?

@amyklobuchar I suppose we could have just waited for a few nuclear explosions in our major cities.

Americans will be paying the price for years to come.

@Tim_Walz In other words, we need to hand out more taxpayer money to buy votes.

Today, we’re launching Small Town PAC. We’re going to show up in small towns, organize in places too many people have given up on, and build power with the folks who call these places home. If Democrats want to win in more places, we’ve got to start showing up in more places.

@DeanBaker13 Just imagine how much still lies undiscovered in MN.

btw, everyone should remember, the Minnesota fraud was uncovered under Biden, and the ringleader was a white woman from out of state.

@amyklobuchar Just think of how many highways we could build/rebuild if we didn't give money to those who don't work. Why not have them help us build infrastructure? Not to mention the billions shipped to Somalia via fraud.

I got an update from Mayor Ressler and Blooming Prairie officials about the work to rebuild Hwy 218. Every time a truck passed, we could feel the road shake. I'm glad we got them federal funding, but they still need more support. This highway is a critical corridor for Southern Minnesota.

@amyklobuchar He takes no salary for his service to our country. Can you say the same?

While Americans are worried about health care and rising costs, the president is focused on building a $400 million ballroom. That says everything about his priorities — and they’re not the American people.

@GrageDustin She'd fit right in the the other crackpot D senators.

Peggy Flanagan just said “we need people who are willing to rip ICE apart.” This last fall she said that ICE was kidnapping people and that activists should show up and “put your body on the line.” This is Tim Walz’s Lieutenant Governor and the leading candidate for the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate.

@amyklobuchar Will this be the place where leftist judges let criminals go without jail time, so they can commit more crimes?

In Waseca, I heard plans for a new, much-needed Justice Center that will break ground this fall. The county’s current courthouse is one of the oldest in the state, and I look forward to working with them on their new building.

@MNSteveSimon So elections are lawful and secure? Then you will agree to implement both voter and citizen verification? Great.

I got to brag about Minnesota’s nation-leading voter participation at a congressional hearing today! ♥️🇺🇸

@amyklobuchar How much graft, er, money was sent to Ukraine on your watch?

The administration says we can’t invest in child care or health care — but wants $200 billion for a unilateral war in Iran. That same money could lower costs and expand care for Americans across the country.

@phillipcparrish @AlphaNews @EstergrenSue I believe you have it nailed!

@AlphaNews @EstergrenSue 🤔🧐 So a dishonest criminal organization establishing a dishonest group to record a dishonest version of what the criminals did and continue to do?

Walz establishes council to document 'the Truth' about immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota The governor, who has repeatedly lambasted Operation Metro Surge, will appoint 13 of the council's 15 members. On the Minnesota Secretary of State's website, the council is referred to as the "Minnesota Truth Council."

@GovTimWalz How about not gouging taxpayers to begin with?

When children and families succeed, Minnesota succeeds. Ahead of today’s tax deadline, families are receiving an average benefit of $2,500 from our nation-leading Child Tax Credit.

@SharylAttkisson Tip of the iceberg.

If anything being said about Swalwell is true, the implications are worse than they seem at first glance. For an ordinary person to do such things is awful and unacceptable. But for a serving, well-known public figure to repeatedly take chances by behaving in this way (if he did) means there are very deep issues. What might such a person be willing to do, that impacts the nation, in order to cover up his behavior? Does this necessitate a closer look at the Fang Fang scandal? It deserved far more attention at the time, but D's still had important use for Swalwell, so it was brushed aside. Although individual sexual assault allegations are understandably of paramount importance to anyone victimized... when it comes to the nation as a whole, the Chinese spying questions are far more significant.

@phillipcparrish @SenTinaSmith Excellent take down!

Tina Smith, this is disgraceful. You’re lying straight to Iron Range families’ faces again. The Twin Metals copper-nickel project is not “in this watershed.” It’s on designated mining land outside the Boundary Waters, using underground tech that meets Minnesota’s tough environmental standards. But you and the DFL syndicate keep screaming “Pandora’s box” and “foreign mining company” to kill thousands of high-wage jobs, critical minerals we need to stop funding China, and real economic hope for the Range that built this state. Three days ago you were singing a different tune on mining. Now it’s all theater for your metro elites and out-of-state green donors. Same racket that loots billions in daycare fraud, Medicaid scams, COVID grift, and election rigging I’ve exposed for years. You protect predators, release criminal illegals, block federal cooperation, and tell hardworking Minnesotans “no prosperity for you.” Disgraceful doesn’t even cover it. You’re not protecting public lands — you’re protecting the machine that’s rigging and looting Minnesota dry. I spent 21 years in Navy intelligence exposing threats. I know a protection racket when I see one. Minnesotans are done. We’re going to crush the fraud networks, secure our borders, enforce real law-and-order cooperation, and unlock responsible resource development that puts Iron Range workers, farmers, and families first. Safe neighborhoods. Protected kids. Honest government that serves the people, not the syndicate. That’s the Minnesota we’re building — where truth wins, good jobs return to every corner of our state, and fathers, mothers, and children thrive without the machine holding them back. Who’s with me? #IronRangeStrong #CleanUpMinnesota

The threat to the Boundary Waters isn’t just about Minnesota — the legislative gymnastics being thrust upon us to allow copper-nickel mining in this watershed would mean no public lands are ever truly protected. We would be opening Pandora’s box… for what? The profits and shareholders of a foreign mining company? Not this mine. Not this place.